Real trouble for Kerry? Pugs EVERYWHERE, nailing him on intel votes

Kerry could be in very deep trouble if the onslaught about his supposed sponsorship of legislation calling for deep intelligence cuts since 1994 are not countered, and fast!

Every channel I turned to had pugs claiming that Kerry was one of the major factors to blame for 911, because he helped gut CIA funding, among other things, and has been against intelligence community "since 1970"

from Tweety to Gloria, to Xfire, to Lester, to the nightly news, pugs are anuerizing about how Kerry is, implicitly, complicit in 911, by dint of his lack of support, no, actions AGAINST keeping our intelligence agencies adequately funded.

the dems who were defending Kerry were obviously unprepared, and need to get some facts out there quick, to counter this, and I mean FAST

tweety was absolutely FOAMING at the mouth, going after Fla. Rep Wexler, moments ago, on Iraq, Saddam, intel. Wexler didn't do too well, especially with the split screen shot of the TERRORIST sponsor Ileana Ros-Lehtinen grinning beside him, just about orgasming over Wexler's inability to handle CM's onslaught

so.....what are the facts about Kerry's voting record on intel?

he'd better have something to say, and soon. this could be bad news

what to do?

one thing for certain: dems better get somebody on screen who can give back as evenly as they get, cause they're getting jackhammered, as of now

It was something like Kerry voted for a 50% increase in intelligence spending in 1996.

Kerry did reply but they won't let it get on the air I think.

That will be the tactic this year. Just tell lies about Kerry and keep his responses off the air.

He has to find a way to get the media coverage that the repugs get.

Tweety is really letting Bush have a free ride lately.

From Salon.com:


http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html/index.html

President Bush is attacking John Kerry for supposedly trying to "gut" U.S. intelligence services in the mid-90s. Here to refute him is former general counsel of both the CIA and Senate Armed Services Committee, Jeffrey Smith. (The following is a statement released by Smith.)

"I am particularly upset by the Bush Campaign efforts to paint Senator Kerry as being out of the mainstream in the mid-90s with respect to efforts to ensure responsible spending by and for the intelligence community. If he was out of the mainstream, so were most other Senators -- including many Republican Senators. "

. . .

It turns out the "vote to gut intelligence services" was actually a vote to stop money from going to a slush fund that had no accountability to congress.

You're right, Kerry needs to do a Clinton. Hammer back hard, fast, loud, everywhere.

They've just opened themselves up for more serious blowback...

Bush Insults Kerry's Intelligence
The president's latest attack is even more dishonest than the last.
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 2:18 PM PT
Intelligent decision-making
There he goes again.
Yesterday, President Bush told a crowd of supporters in Houston that, back in 1995, two years after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Sen. John Kerry introduced legislation to cut the intelligence budget by $1.5 billion. "Once again, Sen. Kerry is trying to have it both ways," the president said. "He's for good intelligence; yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services. And that is no way to lead a nation in a time of war." Bush further charged that Kerry's bill was "so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single-co-sponsor in the United States Senate."
Bush and his operatives are making a practice of mischaracterizing the voting record of the presumptive Democratic nominee. Two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee put out a "Research Brief" that flagrantly distorted Kerry's votes on weapons systems. (Click here for the real facts.) Bush's remarks yesterday are more dishonest still...
(Much more...http://slate.msn.com/id/2096874/

Kerry pointed out that McCain and Bob Kerry backed a similar bill to Kerry's cutting intelligence in 1995. It was to eliminate a contractors' $1 illion plus pork barrel.